New York City Opera today offered a demi-announcement of half their next season.

The season will open with the Glimmerglass Festival staging of Robert Ward‘s The Crucible, which the company premiered in 1961. Francesca Zambello directs the production which opens on September 6, i.e., three months from tomorrow. No casting details have been released.

The season will close with a new commissioned work, Stonewall, with music by Iain Bell, libretto by Pulitzer Prize-winner Mark Campbell, and direction of Leonard Foglia.  The production opens June 19, 2019. No casting details have been released.

In between September and June the company will presumably offer two other productions, and your guess is as good as mine.

La Cieca

James Jorden (who wrote under the names "La Cieca" and "Our Own JJ") was the founder and editor of parterre box. During his 20 year career as an opera critic he wrote for the New York Times, Opera, Gay City News, Opera Now, Musical America and the New York Post. He also raised his voice in punditry on National Public Radio. From time to time he directed opera, including three unsuccessful productions of Don Giovanni. He also contributed a regular column on opera for the New York Observer. James died in October 2023.

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